Women in the Law
Ms. JD Holds Summit to Form National Law Student Sorority
Posted Mar 28, 2008, 04:29 pm CDT
By Molly McDonough
The cyberspace coalition that is "Ms. JD" is leaving the safety of its virtual world to host a real-live program in New York.
Thanks to some BigLaw underwriting, Ms. JD will host a blue-ribbon lineup of judges, practitioners and a journalist at its April 4-5 "Leadership Summit." The summit will bring together women law students from 50 campuses from 30 states, the New York Law Journal reports.
The group says it intends to create a national sorority to advance the professional prospects of women law student grads.
The NY Law Journal reports that speakers include New York's Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye; Barbara Babcock, the first female professor at Stanford Law School; and Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor and legal correspondent for the online magazine Slate.
"Women have been the majority at law schools for close to a decade now, and yet women are very under-represented at the top of the legal profession," event organizer Anna Nelson, a Yale 2L told the publication. "It's not a pipeline problem. So, what is the problem?"
Ms. JD, a popular blog that made the ABA Journal's Blawg 100 last year, tackles these issues on its website.
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Posted by J. - 1 month, 2 weeks, 3 days, 9 hours, 22 minutes ago
It takes a little more than a decade to get to the” top of the legal profession” no matter who you are. It’s simply a matter of time.
Of course, segregated events are probably not going to help.
Posted by Caroline - 1 month, 1 week, 5 days, 12 hours, 2 minutes ago
It’s not supposed to be a “sorority” but more of a networking organization - just like all of the other minority organizations at law schools that help with networking among their peers. White men in the law do it oh so well, and they do it amongst themselves, so why shouldn’t we be able to network among women in the law?